AWK - Re: awk & shell variables containing blanks

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Re: awk & shell variables containing blanks

Bob Harris

2008-01-17, 9:59 pm

In article <478fe20b$0$70962$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl>,
"Mark" <huijstee@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Currently I am experiencing a small issue with awk search patterns & korn
> shell variables.
> I simplified my problem to the following example (which will explain itself
> I suppose) :
>
> $ x="a b"
> $ awk '/'$x'/' <file>
> awk: line 1: runaway regular expression /a ...
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get around it? Probably a small thing, but I
> can't seem to find the answer ...
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark

awk -v re="$x" '$0 ~ re { do something }' file

If you are using Sun, then look for nawk on your system, or get
gawk and install it.

Bob Harris

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